" Pasta in white sauce "

I’ve been longing to make pasta in white sauce but never had guts to make it. But today when I saw zucchini at a veggie shop I started jumping with joy. Since 2-3 months many members of organic terrace garden group have been posting pics of zucchini which forced me to wonder about the texture and taste of this vegetable. I never tasted this particular member of gourd family. I really hate every gourd except of bottle gourd and bit of bitter gourd. So, I was excited and side by side worried also because if I’m not gonna like it, my husband will never ever taste it, as patidev hates every bit of healthy item. He loves oily and spicy food. So when I bought this zucchini many things were going in my mind like how to use and how’ll it taste etc. Then I decided to make pasta in white sauce which was long pending in my to- make list. One can add as many as vegetables. So here’s my version of pasta in white sauce.

Ingredients :

Any shape of pasta - 150 gms ( I used plain noodles)
Green capsicum - 1 diced 
Diced zucchini – 50 gms
Diced carrots – 50 gms
All purpose flour (Maida) – 2 tsp
Cheese – 50 gms ( I used amul processed cheese)
Dried seasoning – as per your taste ( I used Keya Jamaican jerk seasoning)
Dried red chilli flakes (paprika) – as per your taste
salt and black pepper powder – as per taste
Butter – 1tbsp
Cloves of garlic - 4 chopped
Milk - I used around 230 ml of amul milk

Method :

1. Steam all the vegetables, don’t let them overdone but bit crunchy.

  

2. Then cook the pasta as per instructions given on the packet.

For white sauce :

1. Heat butter in a heavy bottomed pan. Then add the chopped garlic and saute for a minute. Don’t let it get brown. 

2. Now add the all purpose flour and saute for a few seconds but don’t let it turn brown.

3. Add milk and stir it continuously to avoid any lumps.

4. Add seasoning, salt, pepper powder and red chilli flakes.

5. Now add grated cheese, now the mixture will start thickening

6. Sauce is ready. 

Once the sauce is done, add cooked pasta and steamed vegetable and adjust salt, pepper, seasoning and chilli as per your taste.

 Pasta’s ready to serve now with your favorite bread :).

Enjoy !